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what does a trial balance include?

what does a trial balance include?
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    1. Ishika Pandey Curious ca aspirant
      2023-02-14T02:55:13+00:00Added an answer on February 14, 2023 at 2:55 am
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      Definition

      The trial balance is a list of all the closing balances of the general ledger at the end of the year. Or in other words, I can say that it is a statement showing debit and credit balances.

      A trial balance is prepared on a particular date and not on a particular period.

      What does trial balance include?

      As in each double-entry system, each account has two aspects debit and credit.

      Hence the following trial balance includes:
      • Debit or credit of the reporting period.
      • The amount which is to be debited or credited to each account.
      • The account numbers.
      • The dates of the reporting period.
      • The totaled sums of debits and credits entered during that time.

      When we prepare a trial balance from the given list of ledger balances, these need to be included which are as follows :

      The balance of all
      • Assets accounts
      • Expenses accounts
      • Losses
      • Drawings
      • Cash and bank balances
      Are placed in the debit column of the trial balance.

      • The balances of
      • liabilities accounts
      • income accounts
      • profits
      • capital
      Are placed in the credit column of the trial balance.

      Importance

      As the trial balance is prepared at the end of the year so it is important for the preparation of financial statements like balance sheets or profit and loss.

      The purpose of the trial balance is as follows:

      • To verify the arithmetical accuracy of the ledger accounts
      This means trial balance indicates that equal debits and credits have been recorded in the ledger accounts.
      It enables one to establish whether the posting and other accounting processes have been carried out without any arithmetical errors.

      • To help in locating errors
      There can be some errors if the trial balance is untallied therefore to get error-free financial statements trial balance is prepared.

      • To facilitate the preparation of financial statements
      A trial balance helps us to directly prepare the financial statements and then which gives us the right to not look or no need to refer to the ledger accounts.

      Structure of trial balance

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